FREEBIRD

[j.c.]

"May God not grant the Americans success!" declared Abou Amin. "A thousand curses on the Americans and their lackeys!"

"Do you think Saddam might return?" Abou Haider asked.

"By God," announced Abou Amin, "Saddam is a million times better than the Americans!"

I laughed. "Of course! Killing, imprisoning and torture is good for Iraq!"
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"Although my childhood memories of Baghdad are happy ones, that is only because my parents shielded us from the city's dreadful realities."
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personally... I'd be happy for Americans to just stay home... of course, I'd be double happy if they (those wishing to do us harm) would just stay home too.

My parents also shielded their kids from the bad stuff... hell, I was an adult before I ever knew there was any bad stuff in our world.

That was a long read... and what I got out of it is they are no more sure of what they want than we are able to give it to them... but, we are at least trying to give them what we ourselves value.